Lisa Genova DNP, MSN,APN,AGPCNP-C ANP
Sea Girt
Summary
Advanced Practice Nurse with 30 years of experience across acute, subacute, and primary care environments. Expertise in patient assessment, care coordination, and critical care strategic planning. Achievements include successful implementation of solutions for inpatient and outpatient care, leading to enhanced quality improvement initiatives and effective chronic disease management. Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to deliver impactful patient education to diverse populations.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Adjunct Clinical Instructor
Monmouth University
01.2026 - Current
- Developed course materials for nursing students in clinical settings.
- Facilitated hands-on training sessions for aspiring healthcare professionals.
- Evaluated student performance and provided constructive feedback on skills.
- Facilitated engaging classroom discussions, promoting critical thinking and professional development.
- Developed instructional materials that integrated current best practices in patient care.
Lead Advanced Practice Nurse
Primary Care Provider Private Practice
05.2021 - Current
- The autonomous role of providing direct patient care to adult and gerontology population and function as an integral part of a private practice under collaboration with Dr Mildred Frantz.
- Perform comprehensive health assessments aimed at health promotion and disease prevention in all aspects of patient care, including diagnosis, treatments, and consultations.
- On average seeing 15-25 patients a day.
- Created a quality metric database to monitor patient trends and outcomes.
- Coordinate staff continuing education.
- Coordinate all communication with industry and pharmaceutical partners.
- Focusing on Primary, Secondary, and tertiary health prevention and management while practicing evidence-based practice.
- Assess, evaluate, and diagnose acute and chronic diseases.
- Order and Interpret labs, diagnostics, EKGs, and proficiency in pharmacological management of medications including Schedule II.
- Provide counseling and education to patients and families for acute and chronic illness management including developing plans of care.
- Developed strategic outpatient protocols to maintain patient adherence and care during the Covid-19 pandemic: utilizing tele-med to increase throughput and prevent admissions.
- Provide house calls to the geriatric population and collaborate with families to manage as caregivers.
- Created a Care Coordination workflow with patients, families, specialists including outpatient visiting nurses and physical/occupational to meet the needs of outpatient population.
Hospice and Palliative Care NP
Compassus Health Care
10.2019 - 12.2022
- Provide face to face assessments to hospice patients in home care and long-term care settings.
- Assess and evaluate patients functionally and cognitively, including laboratory and diagnostics to provide documentation supporting services needed for hospice patients requiring recertification.
Primary Care Provider
Acute-Care Health Systems
10.2020 - 04.2021
- Primary care provider responsible for coordination and delivery of primary care in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to participants in a diverse population.
- Function as a Primary care provider by assessing patients, placing orders, ordering diagnostics and therapies.
- Performs physical assessments, evaluations, and diagnosis to participants in the clinic and in the community.
- Orders and reviews appropriate laboratory and diagnostic procedures, documents and discussions with participants and families.
- Provide medical management to participants to enhance their physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
- Provide primary care to participants with complicated medical diagnosis who require tailored personalized care plans to maintain independence in the community.
- Provide in-house and community assessments to maintain a safe environment for participants.
- Participates in conjunction with specialists in the delivery of health care services order diagnostics studies, labs, and preventative therapies.
- Assist in the delivery of evidence-based standards and protocols.
- Utilizes principles of continuous quality improvement in all work situations to assess and improve organizational function according to PACE Model and CMS standards.
Mentorship/ Preceptor
RWJBarnabas Health
06.2017 - 01.2021
Transitions of Care Nurse Practitioner
Saint Barnabas Medical Center-RWJBH
07.2018 - 10.2020
- Advanced Practice Care coordinator clinical resource during COVID -19 pandemic overseeing over sixty patients daily in three units.
- Oversaw Pulmonary Step-Down Unit and 1st Hospital Covid Unit.
- Collaborated with leadership to create clinical protocol.
- 23 Vent/Trach Covid Patients.
- Lead interdisciplinary clinical rounds.
- Coordinate putting evidence into practice as COVID guidelines and therapeutics evolved in the quick paced pandemic environment.
- Function as a unit-based lead clinician by assessing patients, placing orders, ordering diagnostics and therapies.
- Lead in conjunction with interdisciplinary teams to assure continuity through acute episodes of care.
- Clinical Nurse Support for 3 Units.
- Responsible in assessing, evaluating, and coordinating care on a Pulmonary unit for ICU step down patients.
- Responsible in assessing and coordinating care on COVID patients in an acute care setting.
- Assist in the delivery of evidence-based standards and protocols on unit-based needs and patient safety and develop a streamlines evidence plan of care.
- Work shoulder to shoulder with members of the clinical team in all facets and complete an assessment on every patient within 24-48 hours of admission.
- Assist in collaboration with Pulmonologist’s in developing and implementing standard protocols for respiratory weaning Trach patients.
- Participates in conjunction with physicians in the delivery of health care services records progress notes, requests noninvasive diagnostics studies, transcribes and execute orders and records detailed narrative case summaries.
- Communicate effectively with team members, reports observations in progress notes, delineates problems and findings.
- Supports teamwork by cooperative problem solving through rapid rounds daily to coordinate discharge planning.
- Respond to clinical emergencies on floor and facilitate coordination.
- Utilizes data analytics of continuous quality improvement in all work situations to assess and improve organizational and department functions.
- In consultation review consults with attending/Intensivist.
- Participated in the education of nurses and medical residents.
- Ensured medication reconciliation.
Adjunct Professor
JFK/Muhlenberg School of Nursing
12.2017 - 01.2020
- Clinical instructor to prospective RN students.
- Provide clinical mentoring and teaching skills of the nursing process.
- Oversee clinical groups in hospitals and long-term settings.
- Assist students in completing objectives, constructing care plans, reviewing anatomy and physiology, learning basic skills, and patient care.
Pain and Palliative Care NP: LLC
Always Think Comfort
02.2018 - 06.2019
- Provided medical care, palliates and manages advance illness in nursing rehabilitation/long term settings.
- Assess, diagnose, and treat patients with appropriate pain management techniques and pharmacological methods.
- Reviews history and performs physical examinations on patients’ medical condition and health history.
- Manages chronic and complex conditions thorough collaboration with patients, family, and care team by developing individualized care plans, prescribing medications and treatments and obtaining consultations or making referrals and coordination with other services.
- Educate patient and care givers in understanding and completing POLST and advance directives based on patients’ goals and wishes.
- Facilitate clarification of patient and caregiver goals of care to support development of a comprehensive care plan.
- Implement interventions to support the patient with chronic conditions and end of life care to decrease the recurring hospitalizations.
- Assure patients receive appropriate measures to control symptoms, through collaboration with interdisciplinary team members.
APN-C -Nurse Practitioner
Linden Family Medical
11.2015 - 02.2018
- Provide direct patient care to adult and gerontology population and function as an integral part of a private practice under collaboration with Dr Kevin Lukenda, DO Medial director and Leader of the Family Practice Residency Program, delivering primary care to patients.
- Perform comprehensive health assessments aimed at health promotion and disease prevention in all aspects of patient care, including diagnosis, treatments, and consultations.
- Provide counseling and education to patients and families.
- Lead Administrative NP and Clinical Educator providing diagnosis and medical management for over 150 pts in offsite of three Subacute and Long-term skilled nursing Facilities.
- Functioning as Educator, mentor and resource to Residents and Medical Students in Family Practice Residency, Nursing Staff in facilities by providing continues daily education on evidenced based practice skills.
- Function as Provider in RWJ medical staff with privileges.
Rapid Response RN Clinical Resource Educator
RWJBH
01.2011 - 12.2015
- Provides further nursing assessment and critical thinking to manage/intervene with patients presenting questionable or complex issues, or clinical deterioration in response to requests from direct care staff, concerned patients and/or their family members, and medical staff or from clinical concerns/observations during targeted rounds.
- Collaborates with all members of the healthcare team regarding patient treatments, interventions, and disposition according to existing policies and protocols.
- Assist Staff RNs in the clinical management of patients encompassing all areas of nursing care.
- Assist physicians with procedures such as bronchoscopy, endoscopy, endotracheal intubation, Cardiac Cath, and elective cardioversion.
- Participate in professional organizations and continuing education to improve practice knowledge and skills.
- Participate in the development, review, and evaluation of nursing practice protocols.
- Respond to all in-house emergencies such as acute Stroke, Code Blue, and Code STEMI.
- Provide and trend data on Midas system for quality improvement.
- Livingston, NJ
Nursing Supervisor
RWJBH
04.2006 - 12.2015
- Acting as Hospital Administration and lead administrative role in facilitating off shift functions of five hundred bed Acute Care Medical Center.
- Overseeing and supervising all patient care areas, including Critical Care and Maternal Child.
- Supporting and implementing policies and procedures governed by the institution.
- Collaborating with Administrators, Directors, and managers on off shifts to maintain continuity in efficiency in providing exceptional nursing and patient care services.
- Responsible for directing Logistics and Bed management services with admissions and bed placements and adherence to time limits for continuity.
- Management of staff coordinators and responsible in providing nursing personnel in all nursing units of hospital according to Union standards.
- Plan, provide, or evaluate educational programs for nursing staff and interdisciplinary health care team members.
- Supervise and monitor unit nursing staff.
- Responding to hospital emergencies.
- Utilize service recovery and public relation skills to maintain patient satisfaction.
- Livingston, NJ
RN: Department: Occupational Health
RWJBH
04.2013 - 12.2014
- Perform Nursing Duties such as Assessing and treating employees of the Hospital and outside facilities.
- Providing Care Administering immunizations, PPD’s, flu shots, drug screening.
- Assisting in completing annual physicals for employees of offsite facilities such as DOT and public entities.
- Livingston, NJ
Nursing Supervisor: Nursing Administration
Union Hospital/BarnabasHealth
01.2003 - 09.2008
- Responsible for the administration and supervision of all patient care service activities in assigned areas during the evening, night, and weekend shifts.
- Support and implement policies and procedures that guide the provision of services.
- Confer with unit directors to maintain administrative efficiency including performance appraisals of employees.
- Determine personnel supplies and needs, utilization of equipment and resources.
- Identify and resolve personnel and patient problems and develop plans of action.
- Oversee staffing on all units of the hospital, including bed management.
- Oversee the quality of nursing practice, delivery of care, work performances, and documentation.
- Respond to Codes and other emergencies.
Staff RN: Critical Care Float
Union Hospital
12.1995 - 09.2007
- Assess, analyze, plan, and evaluate care of patients in the ED, ICU and PACU units.
- Perform clinical aspects of Care such as initial and continuous patient assessments.
- Provide nursing care involving IV therapies, medication administration and cardiac monitoring.
- Provide nursing care to diverse critically ill patients involving hemodynamic monitoring, arterial line monitoring, ventilator management, and intracranial pressure monitoring.
- Provide perioperative care to recovery patients from surgery, endoscopies, and pain management.
- Union N.J.
Staff RN: Department: Cardiac Post Anesthesia Care Unit/Open Heart
Morristown Memorial Hospital
10.2001 - 01.2002
- Assess, evaluate, and deliver nursing care to cardio thoracic surgical patients.
- Provide continuous cardiac monitoring, hemodynamic monitoring, and medication titration to meet the needs of the recovering open-heart patient.
- Collaborate with respiratory therapists in ventilator management.
- Continuously deliver care in aspects of fluid and blood replacement, chest tube management, swan Ganz and pacemakers.
- Morristown, N.J.
RN Charge Nurse: Department: Emergency Room
Union Hospital
07.1996 - 01.1999
- In charge of ED staff conveying daily assignments, patient triage and bed assignments.
- Oversee and perform clinical aspects of nursing care to patients in the emergency department such as initial and continuous patient assessments, IV therapies and medication administration to diversified patients in the emergency department.
- Union N.J.
Education
Doctor of Nursing Clinical Practice: DNP - Clinical leadership
Grand Canyon University
Arizona City, AZ01-2019
MSN - Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner/ Advanced Practice
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJ01-2015
Nursing: BSN degree - Nursing Science
Thomas Edison State College
Trenton, NJ01-2009
RN/Diploma - Nursing
Charles E. Gregory School of Nursing
Perth Amboy, NJ01-1996
Skills
- Patient assessment
- Pharmacological management
- Quality improvement
- Evidence-based practice
- Telehealth implementation
- Care coordination
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Health education
- Leadership skills
- Critical thinking
- Effective communication
- Problem solving
- Geriatric care
- Clinical judgment
- Telehealth proficiency
- Palliative care
- Diagnostic reasoning
- Health promotion
- Interprofessional collaboration
- Chronic disease management
- Advanced pharmacology
- Healthcare policy
- Diagnostics
- Effective written and verbal communication
- Medication administration
- Preventive medicine
- Family support
- Family guidance
- Policy advocacy
- Medical histories
- Patient coordination
- Diagnosis and treatment
- Diagnostic test interpretation
- Acute and chronic health issues
- Exemplary communication
- Adult health management
- Specimen test interpretation
- Charting
- Advanced level diagnoses
- Health plan creation
- Patient education
- Wellness strategies
- Preventive care
- Disease prevention
- Medication prescribing
- Medical terminology
- Routine patient testing
- Lab results interpretation
- Cost-effective innovations
- Screenings
- Immunizations
- Prescription refills
- Long-range care
- Medical documentation
- Electronic health records
- Reliability
- Infection control
- Time management abilities
- Task prioritization
- Recovery management
- Specimen results interpretation
- Self-reflection
- Psychiatric care
Certification
- Dementia certification
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- Stroke Certification
- IV Certification
- PICC Certification
- Food as Medicine Certification
Timeline
Adjunct Clinical Instructor
Monmouth University
01.2026 - Current
Lead Advanced Practice Nurse
Primary Care Provider Private Practice
05.2021 - Current
Primary Care Provider
Acute-Care Health Systems
10.2020 - 04.2021
Hospice and Palliative Care NP
Compassus Health Care
10.2019 - 12.2022
Transitions of Care Nurse Practitioner
Saint Barnabas Medical Center-RWJBH
07.2018 - 10.2020
Pain and Palliative Care NP: LLC
Always Think Comfort
02.2018 - 06.2019
Adjunct Professor
JFK/Muhlenberg School of Nursing
12.2017 - 01.2020
Mentorship/ Preceptor
RWJBarnabas Health
06.2017 - 01.2021
APN-C -Nurse Practitioner
Linden Family Medical
11.2015 - 02.2018
RN: Department: Occupational Health
RWJBH
04.2013 - 12.2014
Rapid Response RN Clinical Resource Educator
RWJBH
01.2011 - 12.2015
Nursing Supervisor
RWJBH
04.2006 - 12.2015
Nursing Supervisor: Nursing Administration
Union Hospital/BarnabasHealth
01.2003 - 09.2008
Staff RN: Department: Cardiac Post Anesthesia Care Unit/Open Heart
Morristown Memorial Hospital
10.2001 - 01.2002
RN Charge Nurse: Department: Emergency Room
Union Hospital
07.1996 - 01.1999
Staff RN: Critical Care Float
Union Hospital
12.1995 - 09.2007
MSN - Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner/ Advanced Practice
Monmouth University
Nursing: BSN degree - Nursing Science
Thomas Edison State College
RN/Diploma - Nursing
Charles E. Gregory School of Nursing
Doctor of Nursing Clinical Practice: DNP - Clinical leadership
Grand Canyon University
Acknowledgements Presentations
- 05/20, APN Led Care Coordination to Improve Discharge Facilitation using the Boost Tool, New Orleans, LA
- 11/19, Transitions of care, Saint Barnabas Medical Center APN conference
- 2020, Recipient of NICHE trailblazer award for work with older adults
- 2020, Recipient of Caring award for Nursing Excellence in Surgical Transitions of Care
Professional Memberships
- Nurse clinical practice committee, 2018-2021
- Clinical ladder committee, 2018-2021
- Nursing research committee, 2018-2021
- Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, 2018-Present
- APN council member, 2018-Present
- American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine, 2018-Present
- Forum of Advance Practice, 2017-Present
- American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 2015-Present
- American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, 2016-Present
Training
- Cerner Super User: Provide support and education to staff.
- TOC COPD Pneumonia education to patients and staff.
- Sepsis roll out: Provide Education for staff regarding new sepsis protocol.
- Pain Education for staff: Provide education on the fifth vital sign to off shift staff.
Clinical Work And Knowledge
- Transitions of Care Coordinator- APN for Pulmonary/Acute Care and Medical Surgical Floors
- Sepsis Coordination Team: Implement and in-service staff on pathways
- Primary Care Physicians and APN-C in Internal Medicine/Family Medicine
- Acute Care Admissions, Nursing Home Rehab/ Sub-acute and Long Term
- Inpatient Stroke Center Certification SBMC
- APN in Occupational Health at SBMC
- Community Outreach
mentor ship/preceptorship
Mentorship & Preceptorship
Over 30 years of dedicated clinical mentorship and preceptorship across the full spectrum of nursing education. Expert in bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and advanced clinical practice for pre-licensure and graduate-level students.
RN to BSN Preceptorship- Focus: Enhancing clinical judgment, community health, and leadership within the bedside role.
- Description: Facilitated the transition of licensed RNs into baccalaureate-prepared roles by focusing on the application of evidence-based research to clinical practice.
- Key Activities: Mentored students in conducting holistic patient assessments, improving interdisciplinary coordination, and implementing quality improvement projects at the unit level to enhance patient outcomes.
- Focus: Advanced clinical expertise, pedagogy, and organizational management.
- Description: Guided MSN candidates through concentrated clinical hours focused on advanced practice nursing, clinical instruction, and healthcare administration.
- Key Activities: Provided oversight during clinical rotations, modeled therapeutic communication in complex patient scenarios, and mentored students in developing curriculum or managing departmental workflows. For education-track students, provided opportunities to lead clinical post-conferences and evaluate undergraduate student performance.
- Focus: Systems leadership, policy, and translation of research into practice.
- Description: Served as a clinical mentor for DNP students, focusing on the execution of translational science and systems-level healthcare delivery.
- Key Activities: Collaborated on DNP projects aimed at solving complex organizational issues. Mentored students in analyzing population health data, navigating healthcare policy, and demonstrating executive leadership skills to drive institutional change and improve safety standards.